On the Massachusetts North Shore

Walking Tours of Historic Ipswich

8 Woods Lane, the James Peatfield house (1833)

8 Woods Lane, the James Peatfield house (1833)

James Peatfield purchased this lot on what was then called Fruit Lane in 1833, and built the home, said to be one of the earliest brick capes in Ipswich. He sold the brick house to Asa Kinsman in 1859, and built a large home at 46-48 Washington Street by 1860.